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#3. Less really is more
With its knockout price-performance punch, the first Mazdaspeed3 was a star—not that Mazda engineers didn’t consider shooting for the moon with the followup. In addition to the aforementioned possibility of all-wheel-drive, there was talk of boosting horsepower to a frightening 300 ponies. Would we get behind the wheel of a 300-hp, all-wheel-drive Speed3? Um, yeah—faster than you can say “Zoom-zoom.” But would it be a better car? Not necessarily. And it would definitely be a much pricier car. Instead, Mazda went for some seriously impactful tweaks that boosted the MSRP a mere $455 over the outgoing model to a very livable $23,945.